Contingency « A PM's workshop

Risks and Opportunities

By Eugenio, on August 26th, 2009

Instead of spending energies on devising plans that should deal with any potential problem, the team works in a “ready condition”. Therefore, the Risk (and opportunity) Monitoring will be part of the production [...]

As the time goes by – Managing versions

By Eugenio, on August 14th, 2009

Nice attempt to hide the guest

In our projects, time comes in two versions:

“Fixed” in terms of delivery dates.
“Flowing” like a cursor moving with a uniform velocity on the calendar (toward the milestones).

These truisms are needed for introducing the concept [...]

Contingencies & Risks

By Eugenio, on August 5th, 2009

“Contingency / workaround plans”, or “Exception plan” [3] should be viewed as a stem of the Risk Plan. A bud, which can sprout quickly and strongly, because it has all the information (DNA, if you have a boy who loves biology) is contained in the [...]